ratchet

noun · verb · adjectiveB1

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

ratchetsrachet

1.
A pawl, click, or detent for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
2.
A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch and pawl.
3.
A ratchet wrench.
4.
(broadly)(by extension) A procedure or regulation that goes in one direction, usually up.
5.
(cryptography) A mechanism for generating a new unique key for each message by moving forward in a sequence.
6.
A noisemaker or musical instrument where sound is generated by a board striking against a rotating gear.
7.
(abbreviation, alt of, ellipsis)(finance) Ellipsis of full ratchet.
8.
(US, derogatory, slang)A person, usually a female, who acts or behaves in a ghetto, unseemly, or indecorous way or manner.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

ratchets

V_ing/Gerund

ratcheting

V_ed/pp

ratchetedrachet

1.
(intransitive)To increment or decrement; especially, to offer controlled motion that can increment while resisting decrement, or vice versa.
This holddown ratchets, which allows the person loading the trailer to cinch down the straps.
2.
(transitive)To cause (something) to become incremented or decremented.
Get this holddown into position, but don't start ratcheting it yet. When I say go, you start ratcheting it, OK?
It's time to ratchet up the intensity level here.

Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more ratchet

Superlative

most ratchet

1.
(US, derogatory, slang)Ghetto; unseemly, indecorous.

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Cùng gốc / liên quan

microratchetratchetlike ratchetythermoratchetFeynman-Smoluchowski ratchetfull ratchetBrownian ratchetMuller's ratchetratchet couplingratchet drillratchet jackratchet jawratchet leverratchet punchratchet wrenchratchet effect

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Nguồn gốc từ

From fr rochet, from it rocchetto.